Meet Hillary's early New York adopters

Ready for Hillary, the McLean-Va.-based Super PAC that is not directly affiliated with Ms. Clinton but served as a stalking horse for her (until Sunday) undeclared presidential campaign, raised $12.9 million in 2014, spent $12.1 million and ended the year with $748,469 cash-on-hand, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Many of the 3,291 individual donors who gave the PAC contributions over $200 are based in the Empire State, 372 to be exact. In total, those donors lavished $921,068 on Ready for Hillary, according to a Crain's analysis, despite no assurances from Ms. Clinton herself that the money would be put toward her presidential run.

Some are prominent Democratic funders, like billionaire George Soros and his son Robert Soros (who runs the family’s investment-management fund), who gave the PAC a combined $50,000, or real estate developer and chairman of the Association for a Better New York Bill Rudin, who gave $25,000, and his cousin’s wife Fiona Rudin, chairwoman of the New Victory Theater, who also donated $25,000.

New York-based Amalgamated Bank, one of the only unionized banks in the country, loaned $1 million to the Super PAC.

As Ms. Clinton transitions into a full-time candidate, she will certainly remember those early supporters who ignored skeptics who said she was too unloved or overplayed to run again. And thanks to lax campaign finance rules, all of the PAC’s donors will get the chance to cut a second (and third, and fourth) check, this time to Ms. Clinton’s 2016 campaign itself and the inevitable super-PAC satellites.

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